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Tyrwhitt avalanche

“Trees up to 14 in thick were broken off and tossed like matchsticks…” We don’t usually see avalanches on the trackset trails in Kananaskis. Kananaskis Public Safety has

Pocaterra

When overseas visitors think of the Canadian Rockies, they usually think of Banff. If they are skiers, they usually have

No end in sight

Caroline and I skied 25K on the north end trails of PLPP today. Every trail was in excellent condition, including Pocaterra near the hut. We started at the Visitor Centre, where the snow temp

Hello to everyone who heard me on CBC’s Ski Report this morning. The regular host, Paul Karchut, is on holidays so they asked me to fill the time slot with XC information. Pick the three best places to ski this weekend That’s a tough mandate, but I had to limit the choices for…

Skiing at its best!

What a fantastic day! Without a doubt, these were the finest conditions I’ve seen so far, and I had my most enjoyable ski of the season. This must be the best place in the world to ski. We hit the trail around noon on the first machine-set tracks of the…

The fallen tree on Lynx

Life is good. Soak it all in while you can! When you see all those categories and tags next to the blog post title, you just know it’s going to be a good one. When you see “rant” included in there, how much better could it get? The recent snowfall…

Balmy weather on Blueberry Hill

Karen Silverberg on Blueberry Hill. Dec 5, 2010 This email just came in from Ben Silverberg: Good evening Bob, My wife Karen and I set out early this morning for PLPP uncertain about the day’s temperature range due to conflicting weather reports. On our arrival it was a frosty -21…

Kananaskis Fire Lookout

After spending three tough days of work in Calgary this week, I was itchin’ to get out on the trail. I had my sights set on Whiskey Jack and the Kananaskis Fire Lookout. It was late in the day; the bus full of seniors was already leaving PLPP as I was…

Too much to choose from

Pocaterra Hut is now open Decisions decisions! What a lucky bunch we XC skiers are. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many trails available to us at this time of year. Now, with Pocaterra hut open, I expect there will be a large contingent of skiers wondering about Pocaterra…

One last ski(Part 2)

After reading Steve’s comment about conditions in PLPP yesterday, we had to go check it out one more time, and we’re glad we did. Considering it’s April, and the warm weather we’ve had, the conditions were great. It was mostly overcast and -1, so the snow is staying cold and…

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